Artist

Leyla Josephine

Leyla Josephine is a spoken word artist and theatre maker based in Scotland. She has won many accolades including Hammer and Tongue UK National Slam Winner 2014, Loud Poets’ Grand Slam 2017 and was the runner up for Scottish Slam Champion 2018. She has been published in Gutter Magazine, The High Flight, The Scotsman. She has been featured on BBC The Social, BBC Radio 4, BBC Scotland, STV, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed and Upworthy. Her five-star debut solo show ‘Hopeless’ is currently on tour and was runner up for Saboteur Awards Best Spoken Word Show 2018. She has also published a collection of poems from the show ‘Hopeless’ with Speculative Books.